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Bottom Trawling Could Unleash Carbon Dioxide, Worsening Global Warming
Yahoo News
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A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its winglike pectoral fins as the trawl closes in from...
Utah fire restrictions reduced ahead of Labor Day weekend; caution still urged
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — State and federal land managers are reducing fire restrictions before the Labor Day weekend, but they stress that people should remain cautious with anything that can start a fire outdoors, despite recent monsoonal moisture. Stage...
Letter: How is development in Salt Lake City’s Northwest Quadrant impacting your life? Let your voice be heard.
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake City Intermodal Terminal, on Tuesday, December 26, 2023. As a Salt Lake City councilmember and a lifelong advocate for community-driven planning, I believe no conversation about our city’s future...
Letter: Salt Lake City deserves credit for its work on Allen Park
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Allen Park, located across the street from Westminster College off 1300 East north of Westminster Avenue, is shown on Jan 16, 2020. As a neighbor of Allen Park, I want to publicly thank Salt Lake City for the...
Utah seeks increase in fires, drowning, crashes on public land
The Missoula Current - Montana
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August 28, 2025
Kyle Dunphey (Utah News Dispatch) Whether it’s human-caused wildfires, boating and swimming deaths, or off-road vehicle crashes, Utah has seen an increase in preventable accidents this summer. Now, with Labor Day weekend approaching, officials are...
Utah's fall colors could show earlier this year. Here's when they might peak
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — The signs of the changing seasons are well on display in Utah. Pumpkin spice items have returned to local grocery stores and coffee shops, the football season has already kicked off and astute leaf peepers have noticed that some...
Want to see red kokanee in Utah this fall?
ETV News - Utah
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August 28, 2025
Division of Wildlife Resources Press Release SALT LAKE CITY — Autumn brings a lot of beautiful colors to Utah’s landscape, and driving to see the leaves change color is a popular activity for many locals. However, trees aren’t the only things that...
Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting By J. Miles Coleman
Rasmussen Report
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KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — In Iowa, Democrats continued to rack up special election overperformances by flipping a Trump-won state Senate seat that is based in Sioux City. — Democrats have broken the GOP’s supermajority in the state Senate,...
Fighter jets, lake preservation, law enforcement earmarked by Utah's congressional delegation
KSL - Utah
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WASHINGTON — Nearly $60 million for Air Force repairs. Tens of millions of dollars for various water projects. Investments in dozens of law enforcement offices. That's a glimpse into some of the funding requests submitted by Utah lawmakers for...
As federal housing efforts face cuts, states — including Utah — are working together to fix the housing crisis
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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State and city leaders know the federal cavalry isn’t coming and have built a road map to help elected leaders implement housing solutions in their communities. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox serves as a co-chair of the task force that built the road map...
‘We as educators need to embrace it’: Here’s how Utah teachers say A.I. is giving them more time with students
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Imagine sitting beside Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex where she hid with her family, passing notes in silent conversation to avoid being heard. Or asking Ponyboy, the protagonist of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel “The Outsiders,” what was going...
Voices: I’ve helped manage Utah’s public lands. Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a far-reaching assault.
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The rising sun lights up the rim above the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers marking the start of Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands Utah in mid-October 2021. When President Donald Trump’s...
Utah's morning forecast for Thursday, August 28th
Utah Public Radio
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August 28, 2025
Good Morning Utah, this is Bradley Vernon with the Utah Climate Center. After what's been a wet start to the week so far, we’ve got a few more chances for patchy sprinkles before the remnants of this monsoonal moisture exits the state by the end...
Utah national parks and their gateway towns are feeling a summer tourism slump
KUER - Utah
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August 28, 2025
After a couple of record-setting years, visitation at all of Utah’s national parks is down this summer. The number of visitors at Bryce Canyon in June and July dropped 8% from 2024. Capitol Reef National Park faced a similar slump. At Glen Canyon...
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife spearheads public safety effort to remove low-head dams from waterways
WEKU - Kentucky
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August 28, 2025
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officials got to work removing a low-head dam at Georgetown’s Great Crossing Park last week. It’s part of an effort to remove such dams statewide. Its removal has been a process five years in the making, following...
20 years on, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee says he found ‘genuine love’ in Utah
KUER - Utah
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August 28, 2025
Social worker Ernest Timmons buckled his seatbelt on a JetBlue plane in New Orleans 20 years ago — destination unknown. Beside the 56-year-old sat Arthur Williams, a friend and neighbor he’d known his entire life. They were among the thousands...
Downtown Salt Lake City is rising — and it’s no accident
Utah Business
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August 27, 2025
This story appears in the August 2025 issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. Downtown Salt Lake City isn’t just the geographic center of our capital — it’s the cultural and economic heart of Utah. With millions of visitors annually, billions in public...
Map Shows States Where Toxic Air Pollution Has Been Detected
Newsweek
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August 28, 2025
Data collected by PSE Healthy Energy, an independent energy and climate research institute, shows where methane emissions have hit particularly high levels over the years across the country. The states with some of the highest reported incidents...
Utah legislators could revisit new law requiring licenses at 30 wildlife management areas
KSL - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY — State Rep. Nelson Abbott referenced Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" as he raised concerns with a provision in a bill that he and his colleagues passed earlier this year. Guthrie promises that this land belongs to...
Utah Rivers Council concerned bill could reduce surface area of the Great Salt Lake
KPCW - Utah
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Executive Director of the Utah Rivers Council Zach Frankel discusses their concern with approval of bill that could reduce 40% of the surface area of the Great Salt Lake. The Utah legislative interim committee voted 15-1 to support draft...